Dis-embedding forces and associative counter-movements: Capitalism, state sovereignty and associations as political subjects.

The opposition between individual rights and state sovereignty, which continues to structure political and economic discussions today, is only in apparent contradiction, as they form the two poles of the dominant individual-state imaginary of social and political order. This is highlighted when cont...

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Publicado en:Capital & Class Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 115 - 139
Autores principales: Popp-Madsen, Benjamin Ask, Jessen, Mathias Hein
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Mar2026
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          Popp-Madsen, Benjamin Ask
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        Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964
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        Sovereignty
        Social order
        Social theory
        Human rights
        Social processes
        Social movements
        Capitalism
        Political organizations
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        double movement
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        Karl Polanyi
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      ab: The opposition between individual rights and state sovereignty, which continues to structure political and economic discussions today, is only in apparent contradiction, as they form the two poles of the dominant individual-state imaginary of social and political order. This is highlighted when contrasting it to the model of social order it has historically combatted, namely, the associative imaginary. The two display an antagonistic understanding of the role of intermediary bodies between the individual and the state: where the former empties the social and political space between the sovereign (nation-)state and the individual, the latter fills it with a plethora of associations. In reconstructing these two imaginaries and their continual conflict, we draw on Charles Taylor's concept of modern social imaginaries and develops Karl Polanyi's notion of the double movement to analyze the processes through which the individual has been dis-embedded and re-embedded in associative structures throughout modern history as well as in modern social theory and political thought.
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